{"id":10454,"date":"2024-06-17T16:17:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T20:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10454"},"modified":"2024-06-17T16:17:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T20:17:33","slug":"will-we-ever-get-done-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/06\/17\/will-we-ever-get-done-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"Will we ever get done planting?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year has been crazy so far. First off, we had a winter without snow. Then, spring came early so we started in early. But we got rain. And rain. And more rain. So, the gardens got soaked and mushy. Very hard to plant, till, haul manure, or even walk. But finally, we’re getting caught up. Kind of\u2026 The greenhouse is getting emptier by the day as I’m getting peppers planted both in the hoop house and out in the gardens. It really helped when our friends, Dara and Sherri, came to help last Thursday, in between rainy days. They not only helped Will get the tomato cages on the staked tomatoes but also weeded some of my worst flower beds for me. Thank you, guys, so much! I am still fighting knee pain in both knees and bending to weed is very hard for me, especially after planting so many plants plus walking behind the Earthway seeder for how many miles, planting beans, corn, carrots, and beets.<\/p>\n

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Will, hauling bales of Reed Canary grass hay to mulch the tomato patch with while Dara sets cages over stakes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sherri, carrying more tomato cages from the side of the garden to the tomato patch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our flowers are awesome this year, I think mostly due to the fertilizer they’ve received (thanks cows!) and a combination of rain and warm days. The iris are blooming now and the peonies are just starting. We really enjoy them a whole lot! Now if I just can get the lawn mowed, it’ll seem like we’re civilized folks.<\/p>\n

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Our German Iris are starting to amaze us with their blooms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This morning, Will and I were watching our Canada geese family swim around the beaver pond when a pair of Trumpeter swans flew in and landed. Boy are they so beautiful! I sure wish they’d nest on one of our ponds. Just when we were about done watching them, another pair sailed in and landed.<\/p>\n

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Once again, we were blessed to see a beautiful pair of Trumpeter swans swimming on our pond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I sure love watching out the front window, to the pond. We see so much wildlife here. Like the doe who always has her fawns down below the house. She’s staked out her territory there and never goes far from it. We still haven’t seen the babies yet but know we will, soon. Sarge loves lying in front of the window and watching her. It’s like his own doggy TV. Luckily, he does not chase deer. Hondo taught him better than that. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year has been crazy so far. First off, we had a winter without snow. Then, spring came early so we started in early. But we got rain. And rain. And more rain. So, the gardens got soaked and mushy. Very hard to plant, till, haul manure, or even walk. But finally, we’re getting caught […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10459,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10454\/revisions\/10459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}